Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over ...

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Dr. Baumann and his colleagues hypothesize that ancient humans may have hunted and killed more animals than they could ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient ... Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

In the 1990s, archaeologists in Poland excavated one of these settlements from 18,000 years ago called Maszycka Cave. Now, ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

New study demonstrates that certain incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

The study led by Dr. Mae Goder-Goldberger (Hebrew University and Ben Gurion University) and Dr. João Marreiros (Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution ...